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Accounting Standard AASB 18 Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements
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13 In this Standard:
(a) the profit or loss section described in paragraph 12(a) and the statement of profit or loss described in paragraph 12(b) are referred to as the statement of profit or loss; and
(b) the other comprehensive income section described in paragraph 12(a) and the statement presenting comprehensive income described in paragraph 12(b) are referred to as the statement presenting comprehensive income.
14 An entity shall present each of the primary financial statements with equal prominence in a complete set of financial statements.
The roles of the primary financial statements and the notes
15 To achieve the objective of financial statements (see paragraph 9), an entity presents information in the primary financial statements and discloses information in the notes. An entity need only present or disclose material information (see paragraphs 19 and B1–B5).
16 The role of the primary financial statements is to provide structured summaries of a reporting entity’s recognised assets, liabilities, equity, income, expenses and cash flows, that are useful to users of financial statements for:
(a) obtaining an understandable overview of the entity’s recognised assets, liabilities, equity, income, expenses and cash flows;
(c) identifying items or areas about which users of financial statements may wish to seek additional information in the notes.